[Closed] Fiat Doblo (What to look for)

We had a 2004 1.9jtd Cargo (van). We put 80k miles on it in 4 years and loved it. Dspite what others might think, it was 100% reliable.

I've got a 1.3 58 plate.

Immaculate when I bought it 4 years ago, now done 60,000 with little fuss.

Mines had new discs & pads, exhaust welded and needs a new wishbone.
So excluding tyres and servicing, that's £200 costs in total.

Love it to bits, great engine which revs like a petrol just enough power fully loaded, but will climb up anything.

Nice place to be - plenty of space, tough, loads of room for kit and it scrubs up well, decent stereo.
Bit cheap and agricultural.

It's fun to drive, in a modern 2CV kind of way.
Grips well if you don't take the piss but the brakes aren't that great fully loaded - they seem to go off a bit after extended use, overheating I assume.

I's been reliable so far, but if it did cark it I'd have another without question.

I even like the looks.
🙂

The rear speaker grille clips were broke on every one I looked at - I just use BluTac.

The 1.3 diesel in these vans and also combos etc is known t have a number of problems - turbo ecu etc. It's not an engine I'd be willing to buy.

*Panics*
I thought that was the 1.9?

Im with steveh.

They(1.3combos) were pulled from a number of hire/lease fleets for a reason.....

My uncle got few fair number of pool combos at his firm - but i suspect that him having a 2.5v6 mundano for his car means he was very lead foot on the combos to get them to move - but ecus were a speciality on his shift.

The 1.9 was certainy, a cracking engine in 2000 and one to have , very popular as a cheap to insure way to a relitively fast car when everyone else was driving 1.2 corsas - they seemed to take a pounding from youths in baseball caps